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Title:

Diagrammatology

Subtitle:

An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics

Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought andknowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce'smature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece ofepistemology. The book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl'scontemporanous doctrine of "categorial intuition" and charts the manyunnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlianphenomenology. Diagrams, on a Peircean account, allow for observation andexperimentation with ideal structures and objects and thus furnish theaccess to the synthetic a priori of the regional and formal ontology of theHusserlian tradition.

The second part of the book focusses on three regional branches ofsemiotics: biosemiotics, picture analysis, and the theory of literature.Based on diagrammatology, these domains appear as accessible for adiagrammatological approach which leaves the traditional relativism andculturalism of semiotics behind and hence constitutes a realist semiotics.